Sletten Kenneth W KPWA wrote:

> SUMMARY:  A port of Transact to another OS ain't gonna happen.
> I expect only realistic hope for continuing to use Transact compiler
> on anything expect MPE running on PA-RISC, is if an effective MPE
> emulator can eventually come into being for IA-64....  Sorry;  but
> afraid we need to separate what we wish could happen from what we
> logically and rationally expect is possible in this case...

But, thought might be given to writing an emulator to execute
Transact syntax.  Might turn out to be easier.  Use something
like Java that has a lot of built in functionality and DB support.
You could extend the lanquage at the same time perhaps making an
open source 4GL.

Richard
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